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A Week of Favourite Things – My Favourite Drink

March 8, 2009

No. Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce is not my favourite drink… But it’s bedmate, the Bloody Mary is!

Here’s how it goes at my house – your thoughts/suggestions/bloody mary anecdotes are invited! (Know that this is a once-in-a-blue moon treat – and no more then two ever. Don’t feel you are sending me down the well-trodden path to slurry ruin, because I am the total queen of being responsible, in case you didn’t know. That’s my ‘issssue’. But hey, that’s a whole other blog.)

How To Make A Really Nice Bloody Mary

30ml Vodka – the blue-labelled Smirnoff one is good
2 tbsp of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
a good shake of Tabasco Sauce
1 tsp of horseradish
300ml Tomato Juice (must NOT be ‘no added sugar’ variety)
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 tsp sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
a slosh of red wine (about 30ml) to top up on serving

Add some ice to a very long glass. Then add the Worcestershire Sauce, Tabasco, Horseradish, Lemon Juice and Sea Salt. Next add the vodka and tomato juice – it’ll mix up as you add it. Now grind on the pepper and slosh in the wine. Stir with a swizzle stick and enjoy!

Please note : Still very nice alcohol free with a stick of celery to make it ‘meaty’!

xx Pip

6 Comments

Uli March 9, 2009 at 1:48 AM

I love a bloody mary.

That recipe looks great, but I tend to keep mine very simple (partly from laziness, but partly because it’s just the way I like them).

For me it’s just vodka, tomato juice, Worcestershire Sauce and Tabasco. But I shake up the tomato juice until it bubbles.

edward and lilly March 9, 2009 at 1:46 AM

I hear ya on this one! And a super spicy virgin mary is my saturday morning kick start (aka hangover cure).

zofia March 9, 2009 at 12:14 AM

Oh, my fav. too! Haven’t had one since the 2nd child- I’ll have to remedy that!
Horseradish-yum! Would have to be the excellent HOT polish stuff that my grandpa used to make!
I wonder where you can buy horseradish root?

Tanya March 8, 2009 at 8:14 PM

I’ll have to try the horseradish. I’ve been trying to perfect my bloody mary for years. Some additions I put in mine are celery salt and garlic mushed up using one of those dishes with the bumps that you get korean bbq places.

Head Bitch in Charge March 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM

Oh that sounds so dee-licious! We live to throw in pickled things too; olives, green beans, cocktail onions, asparagus. And a dash of the juice from the jar.

rejenerate March 8, 2009 at 11:25 AM

Oooh I have never been able to master the perfect Bloody Mary. I’ll be trying this for sure. Thanks 🙂